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Opened. 1878. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Menard Correctional Center, known prior to 1970 as Southern Illinois Penitentiary, is an Illinois state prison located in the town of Chester in Randolph County, Illinois. It houses maximum-security and high-medium-security adult males. The average daily population as of 2007 was 3,410.
Joliet Correctional Center, which was a completely separate prison from Stateville Correctional Center in nearby Crest Hill, opened in 1858. The prison was built with convict labor leased by the state to contractor Lorenzo P. Sanger and warden Samuel K. Casey. The limestone used to build the prison was quarried on the site. [2]
Pontiac Correctional Center utilizes the Pontiac Medium Security Unit to house these offenders. Menard Correctional Center utilizes the Menard Medium Security Unit to house these offenders. 2 Very Strong Perimeter, Offenders Housed in Cells, Guard Towers, Escorted Controlled Movement Limited Day Room Time (21 hours in cell, 3 hours out)
These 10 states have the most people in prison. Menard Correctional Center, Illinois. 10. Illinois. The Land of Lincoln has about 53,000 people in prison. The biggest prison in Illinois is the ...
Maximum. Capacity. 4,134. Opened. 1925. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Stateville Correctional Center ( SCC) is a maximum security state prison for men in Crest Hill, Illinois, United States, near Chicago. [1] [2] It is a part of the Illinois Department of Corrections .
State (s) Texas and Illinois. Date apprehended. April 1, 1990. Imprisoned at. Menard Correctional Center. Robert Benjamin Rhoades (born November 22, 1945), also known as The Truck Stop Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist. He is confirmed to have tortured and killed at least two couples in Illinois and Texas in 1989 and 1990, and is ...
July 24, 1993. Imprisoned at. Menard Correctional Center, Chester, Illinois. Lorenzo Fayne (born April 2, 1971) is an American serial killer and rapist who, between 1989 and 1993, murdered one woman and five children in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois. In 2001, he was convicted and sentenced to death, but the following year, in response to ...
The entrance of Craggy Correctional Center in this 2021 Citizen Times file photo. Question : What is the construction project that appears to be going on at the prison in Woodfin?